PE Tech Report

Blockchain

Blockdaemon raises USD5.5m in funding round

Blockdaemon, a blockchain infrastructure platform for node management serving institutions and developers, has completed a strategic funding round of USD5.5 million led by venture capital (VC) firms focused on blockchain technology. Blockdaemon’s funding round is supported by a number of new investors including Hashkey, CoinShares, Blockchain.com, Kenetic, SPiCE VC and Fenbushi

Fusion Foundation to bring YAD Capital’s Alternative Credit Investments onto Blockchain

YAD Capital is be bringing its alternative credit portfolio to Fusion Foundation’s cryptofinance ecosystem. Fusion is a non-profit organisation building the next generation infrastructure for decentralised global finance.   The borderless efficiency and fractionalisation of assets enabled by blockchain will broaden YAD’s reach to both underserved merchants in need of

US Capital Global Securities adds blockchain technology VC fund to portfolio

US Capital Global Securities, an affiliate of US Capital Global, is offering to accredited investors a USD10 million equity investment in CityBlock Capital’s first tokenised venture fund, NYCQ Fund LP, as the Fund’s exclusive placement agent.  US Capital Global Securities recently added the Fund to its own expanding portfolio. The

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BTG Pactual and Dalma Capital to utilise Tezos blockchain for security token offerings

Latin American investment bank Banco BTG Pactual, together with Dubai-based asset manager Dalma Capital, are to utilise the Tezos blockchain for security token offerings (STOs), including the ongoing REITBZ STO.  By utilising the new platform for digital securities transactions, the financial institutions address a deal pipeline in excess of USD1 billion for

Northern Trust Peter Cherecwich

Northern Trust to transfer private equity blockchain technology platform to Broadridge

Northern Trust is to transfer its distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform for private equity (PE) asset servicing to Broadridge, in whatv he companies says is a significant step towards delivering an industry-wide PE blockchain solution. Following the agreement, Broadridge will develop the platform leveraging blockchain technology developed by Northern Trust.

Draper Venture Network selects blockchain-focused GHV to join DVN Beta

Goren Holm Ventures (GHV), a fintech and blockchain-focused venture studio based out of Santa Monica, California, has joined Draper Venture Network’s DVN Beta program. Founded by venture capitalist Tim Draper, DVN currently comprises of 24 VC funds that operate in 60 cities globally and collectively manage over USD2 billion in

Blufolio Blockchain Venture Capital Fund invests in YAPEAL

Blufolio, a Swiss blockchain investment firm and manager of the Luxembourg-registered blufolio venture capital fund, has made its first investment in YAPEAL, a Zurich-based digital banking start-up founded by an experienced team of finance and technology professionals.  YAPEAL is initially addressing a specific section of the Swiss consumer market, with

StrongBlock closes USD4m seed round

StrongBlock, a Magnetic Capital incubated startup founded by four former technology executives from EOSIO-creator Block.one, has secured USD4 million in a seed funding round led byPangea Blockchain Fund and its limited partners including Copernicus Asset Management SA (Copernicus). The raise will support the company’s plans to be the blockchain standard

Christopher Palotta, Templum

Symbiont and Templum partner to deliver smart securities for private markets

Symbiont, a financial technology company delivering enterprise blockchain solutions, is partnering with Templum, a technology company for the private markets to deliver smart securities. Templum will leverage and embed Symbiont’s Assembly as the blockchain and smart contract technology for its regulated, end-to-end solutions for raising capital and secondary trading platform,

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Equivito partners with Ablrate to create blockchain private debt trading platform

Equitivo is partnering with Ablrate, a specialist asset backed lending marketplace, to accelerate its growth, launch a new integrated broker platform, expand its marketing and develop new products. The consultancy work will also assist in Ablrate’s progress of ASMX, a blockchain enabled secondary market which connects multiple platforms and investors

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